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Welcome to the quarterfinals of the Pokemon Showdown Premier League IV Playoffs! The top two from each group has advanced to the playoffs. From here, the matches will be conducted in knockout format until a winner is decided in the finals, with the succession being top 16 -> quarterfinals ->...
Welcome to the first round of the Pokemon Showdown Premier League IV Playoffs! The top two from each group has advanced to the playoffs. From here, the matches will be conducted in knockout format until a winner is decided in the finals, with the succession being top 16 -> quarterfinals ->...
First of all guys, I want to apologize for the delay. That's on me. This should have been posted almost a week ago, but the aforementioned unexpected computer issues scpinion mentioned in the past PSPL thread, coupled with him having a vacation around the same time, got in the way. Now with a...
Welcome to the fourth iteration of Showdown's biggest team tournament: Pokemon Showdown Premier League! PSPL IV will see the various rooms from PS! duking it out in a team tournament with teams composed of ranked users from each room.
Structural changes and additional rules from last year's...
Welcome to Week 5! The deadline for this week will occur in July 22, 11:59 PM EST. No extensions, meaning that coinflips will be issued out in the event that both players make an equal effort to get their matches started. The main source of communication are expected to be from VMs, so make use...
Welcome to Week 4! The deadline for this week will occur in July 12, 11:59 PM EST. No extensions, meaning that coinflips will be issued out in the event that both players make an equal effort to get their matches started. The main source of communication are expected to be from VMs, so make use...
I'm sure a lot of you who are heavily accustomed to the PU tier are familiar with the FU metagame, a usage-based tier below PU. It has previously operated in the Other Metagames forum, featuring as a playable OM. This metagame is currently represented in PUPL, and we feel that it's best to...
Welcome to Week 3! The deadline for this week will occur in July 1st, 11:59 PM EST. No extensions, meaning that coinflips will be issued out in the event that both players make an equal effort to get their matches started. The main source of communication are expected to be from VMs, so make use...
Welcome to Week 2! The deadline for this week will occur in June 23, 11:59 PM EST. No extensions, meaning that coinflips will be issued out in the event that both players make an equal effort to get their matches started. The main source of communication are expected to be from VMs, so make use...
Welcome to week one of PUPL, the moment you've all waited for! The deadline for this week will occur in June 15, 11:59 PM EST. No extensions, meaning that coinflips will be issued out in the event that both players make an equal effort to get their matches started. The main source of...
Hello everyone, to avoid cluttering up the subforum with a bunch of threads I am going to make one thread for any and all decision-making matters pertaining to PUPL. Be sure to be on the lookout for later posts, as those will usually comprise of decisions that everyone should be aware of. This...
Welcome to PUPL! As you guys may know by now, Other Metagames are running a Premier League, excluding PU for the purpose of starting our own! We're delighted to present you guys this opportunity to duke it out with our best PU players!
The managers have already been decided in a group of 6...
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Hello everyone! It's been decided that come February when our tier shift happens, we try something different with our main thread. We'll be running them via np threads from here on out each tier shift, as each will introduce a new metagame and such new threads help distinguish that fact...
Hello guys! This thread is designed to function as an interactive project that intends to have two teams matched up against each other. Your task is to try to figure out in detail which team has a better chance of winning.
This project will also have a BOTW aspect to it, in that after each week...
Welcome back everyone! We figured out the issues surrounding the server's connectivity. The primary cause was a hard drive failure.
All of your user accounts will remain secure, but we'll be essentially starting everything from scratch to speed up getting everything working again. This includes...
Before we start, here's all the information you need to know before reserving an analysis and some useful links to help you along the way:
Generation 6 Analysis Format
Spelling and Grammar Standards
Grammar-Prose Team Queue
For your convenience, here's a list of the current PU QC team members...
Many competitive players have established that Speed tiers has led to defining changes of metagames, simply because part of the ability for certain Pokemon to beat one another 1v1 is to out speed a certain threat so they could give out a powerful blow either first, or to pick off the opposing...
Hello. The idea of this article is to commentate on a gimmicky spotlight RMT that has had quite a surprising amount on the ladder. This team was introduced by user Molk, with the RMT that can be found here. I figured that this would be an interesting idea that can definitely spark some...
I offered to volunteer on doing this, so here you go~
Monthly Statistics:
Other Metagame of the Month: 1v1
Total battles: 253631
Avg. weight/team: 0.837
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Taking over Raseri's previous skelly
[Overview]
<p>Musharna is one of the most versatile Pokemon in the tier due to a great stat distribution and a movepool that adds to its ability to perform a variety of roles. Such options include that of a defensive pivot, boosting sweeper, offensive...